Remember when Dana White was extra bald and extra shouty as he yelled something along the lines of, “The people want a superfight between Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre and I’m going to make sure it happens!” Well, it seems that I still have a better chance of providing my middle school with that Coke machine in the cafeteria that I promised all those years ago than the UFC President does of making this dream match come true.

GSP was a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience earlier this week, and among other things he discussed the possibility of making this superfight happen, and he basically admitted that there’s the slimmest of chances if any.

“I need to do stuff in my division before I take (a superfight) because it has moved now,” said St-Pierre. (Via MMA Weekly)

He’s referring to the fact that the welterweight division is absolutely stacked right now, with Johny Hendricks doing everything short of challenging Cthulhu to get his title shot against the UFC Welterweight Champion, while Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz wouldn’t mind rematches against GSP as well. And on top of those guys, you’ve got Rory MacDonald waiting in the wings and young guns like Jordan Mein and Gunnar Nelson quickly making names for themselves. Some may argue Nelson’s name being mentioned here, but as I’ve made clear, my dream for him is to be the man who eventually takes GSP’s title as Nelson’s “Love and Affection” plays in the background, but that’s neither here nor there.

But there’s a little more to it than just St-Pierre wanting to take on guys who are worthy and Nick Diaz.

“Anderson Silva is very big. He’s 230 pounds. He’s a very big guy, walking around very big and I’m 190 pounds. It’s a lot of weight difference. If this fight happens one day, we’re going to have to decide what weight class and everything,” he said.

“I don’t do a lot of cutting. It would be easier for me to go fight at 155 than fighting at 185. I would be more at my weight naturally. There’s guys at 155 that walk around 190 like me,” said St-Pierre. “They think I’m big because I have a large frame, but I’m not a big guy. I’m not thick.”

“If he wants to make 170, I weigh 170, and he can (come down to) 170, that’s fine,” said St-Pierre.

I don’t really give a poop if the superfight happens or not, as long as Hendricks is next in line for a title shot. And, you know, it’s not 5 rounds of GSP laying on top of him.

I’ve been saying this for years that it won’t ever happen for the reasons GSP gave. Silva and Jones makes more sense. And even then, why would White want to have those two guys fight when he can have both men dominate their respective weight divisions and have two dominate champions as opposed to one?

Don’t believe that GSP and Rory won’t fight because they train at Tri-Star crap. Eventually MacDonald is going to want to make main-event money and he’s switch gyms in the blink of an eye when it comes down to a chance at being the champ and making the dollar dollar bills, y’all.

I don’t understand why they have a choice. If the people want to see GSP and Silva fight that should be the only question. They have no other reason for living other than to please the fans…so either they fight or lets sacrifice them to Imotep.

I disagree. It sounds like GSP wants to fight Silva on his retirement fight, while GSP is tired of the grind that comes with the fight game he’s still unsure when he wants to retire. Matt Hughes, someone that GSP respects, says the biggest regret of his career is not fighting Anderson Silva. Rush is just trying to negotiate more money out of Dana…I still think they’ll fight someday. It’s going to take something huge, and while the UFC certainly is capable of some big things I don’t think they have the imagination to try to make the event big enough for them to fight. Imagine this: Silva/GSP and Cain/JDS 3, live at Cowboys Stadium…on Fox. I honestly think if they promote that fight right they can set an attendance record at Cowboys Stadium (larger than the Super Bowl’s attendance) and get ratings similar to the NFL Draft or a World Series game. Which, of course would be enough to pay GSP and Silva the money they need in order to take the fight.

I think GSP knows he probably won’t be able to grind out a decision victory against Silva. If GSP was any kind of confident in his ability to finish he might be more interested in taking a catch-weight fight with Silva. But GSP hasn’t finished a fight since, fuck if I know, grade school? and he knows that Silva would almost certainly whup him. If GSP doesn’t need the money then it wouldn’t make sense for him to sign on for a fight where there’s no real upside and the downside is a bit of a tarnished legacy.